Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996 (ICPSR 6657)

Citation

Lane, John C. Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998-02-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06657.v2

Summary

This data collection covers all parliamentary elections
held in Malta from 1921 to 1996 except for elections to the
short-lived Senate. The 19 elections involved 1,046 individuals
undertaking 3,082 candidacies. The use of this dataset assumes some
familiarity with the single-transferable-vote (STV) system and
knowledge of concepts such as nontransferable votes and the need for
repeated vote-transfer counts to determine the winners in multimember
districts. A majority of the variables involve vote transfers, as
these are crucial to the examination of both inter- and intra-party
competition in an STV system. The dataset is organized by candidacy
and includes records for nontransferable votes.

Citation

Lane, John C. Voting Results Under a Single-Transferable-Vote System in Malta, 1921-1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1998-02-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06657.v2

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1921 -- 1996

Data Collection Notes

The data are supplied in comma-delimited format. Data
entry was performed in Quattro Pro. Because that program does not
provide leading zeroes, the values of particular variables can vary in
length from 1 to 5 digits. Thus, care needs to be taken when importing
the data into statistical programs.